Reddit Migration

End of an era. Start of a new one though.

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The silver lining is that we discovered the fediverse

Weird. RIF still works here.

This is the one I used too. Goodbye Reddit.

RIP RIF

Feels weird man, used that app for years and now it's gone.

I've put the app on the corner to always remember what was taken away from us.

It was my favorite Reddit app for many years. But the fun is now over.

RIP RiF! Thanks for all the fun!

Good night sweet prince.

Reddit is gonna burn hard and we are all here for it u/spez is gonna face the music once and for all and we are all here for it!

Yup has stopped working for me as well. Rip RIF.

Wonder how big the next wave of refugees is gonna be.

RIF was a great app. Here's to hoping we bring all the best parts of Reddit across and continue the fun!

Thank you RIF developers for making reddit compact and readable.
Welcome to lemmy / kbin to all new reddit refugees!

Reddit will never be fun again

Sync for Reddit is shut down now too 😢

So long, and thanks for all the fish!

Fyi just tried the app and it still loaded Reddit for me.

F to pay respect

Now for Reddit is going to stay open but I don't suspect it will be for long. Reading his post I don't think he has a firm grasp of what it's going to look like working within reddits cogs.

Was in the middle of deleting all of my post history using RIF when it stopped working. Had to finish up on a browser, sadly.

The shadow remains cast.

Thank you for 12 years of fun, talklittle

I thought it was shutting down tomorrow, so the shock made it sting all the more.

It's Fediverse full-time for me, now.

Same with Sync. The dev is working on a Lemmy app, but I'm not convinced it can replace Reddit.

I literally watched RIF die while watching a movie at home with my family. I was hoping it would be good to midnight, eastern time, but recognized this was completely arbitrary. One minute the front page worked. I put my phone down and went back to it 20 minutes later maybe around 8:45pm Eastern - I could only get one screen-full of links, and when I tried to scroll, I got an error saying it couldn't load anything else, and visiting other subreddits produced the same "no threads" message posted here. About 20 minutes after that, the front page was doing the same thing, and it was done.

RIF was great; I checked out reddit via mobile browser after it died, but the interface was just.... not nearly as clean as RIF. No interest in using the app.

I remember leaving Digg.com for reddit in 2010. Reddit was an easy choice. It remains to be seen where we'll all end up as there doesn't seem to be anywhere as big and developed as reddit was, even back then. Lemmy and the fediverse might be good initially for topics with a broader draw of people, but for our niche interests it'll be hard to kick reddit. Maybe for niche topics, things will look like pre-Digg internet, with more reliance on individual websites, individual forums, but with a healthy amount of discord added in.

BaconReader is no more. 7 years of use from me and I am so upset. It's not the same over here

Shit sucks man. I've used Rif for longer than I can even remember. I never once used the official app or even view Reddit in my desktop.

I keep saying it but this is more emotional than I would have thought. It's an end to an era. And RIF and the other apps helped us all connect, laugh, cry, vent, argue, meme and stuff together. The app devs were as much responsible for the success and entertainment of reddit as reddit itself. It's a weird.

I ditched it a week ago, i didn't want to experience this. so glad I am here.

The Creator of RIF says they are working on tildes.net, I don't believe that's part of the fediverse sadly. I really know very little about tildes anyone know why they would choose that over trying to build for Lemmy or kbin?

I used RIF for its accessibility features and screen reader support.

The Reddit App has none of that.